Browsing Topic Best Progress In Science Quotes

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don’t think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don’t get that Nobel Prize are better than people… than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.